Pacifier hell?

My LO was sleeping through the night, then suddenly after months of refusing them wanted a pacifier to fall asleep. Well, like dorks we gave her one and now we are up every HOUR
at night as she stirs and cries looking for the pacifier. Anyone else in pacifier he'll with me? I think we are going to have to stop giving it to her and just comfort her when she screams for it. We are all doing terribly with this kind of disrupted sleeping schedule. I would like to keep it for naps, but am not sure if that would just confuse her.

Anyone else had to ditch the pacifier for this reason yet? How didn't go?

I feel your passion, though my lo is a thumb sucker. The only way she takes a pacifier is if we hold it in her mouth. and unfortunately, she has pink eye right now and we have to put mittens on her at night so she doesn't mess with her eyes, so she keeps waking up because she wants her thumb and she gets ANGRY. self soothing is not easy to come by...